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For anyone involved in supportingĀ customers of any non-trivial commercial software product, it is very important to understand the distinction between a product demo and product training.
Ideally, demos are pre-sales and training is post-sales. Read the rest of this entry »
I’m currently doing some training development with Faizul Alam of Catalyte IC Design. The modules I’m working on are Introduction to DFT (Design for Test), Advanced LinkedIn topics, plus a possible resurrection of my Semiconductors for Non-Engineers seminar. I’ll be releasing more information here as things progress. Read the rest of this entry »
No, I haven’t given up blogging. I’ve been trying for the past several days to re-create recorded versions of some of my “Technology Basics” lectures, including animated PowerPoint, using a tool called Camtasia, which I’ve used before. I’m a few days into the free 30-day trial, but I’ve had trouble getting the tool to save my work. I can record seemingly trouble-free as long as I want, but if I go too long, the tool simply fails to save with no indication that anything has gone wrong. This is, to say the least, quite frustrating. I’m going to keep trying.
Addendum, June 15, 2009: After doing some hardware and software repair (new hard drive, OS fix), I did get Camtasia to run and record everything I needed, but I was not able to use the picture-in-picture preview feature. Using that feature resulted in the behavior described. The file would not save and PowerPoint crashed after the fact.
In this posting, I will revisit the topic of analogies and explore how to create them. To begin creating an analogy, first reduce the target phenomenon to basic principles. Then find another, more familiar phenomenon with similar basic principles. Read the rest of this entry »
Probably the most important thing to do when designing a training course is to determine whether or not there will be any “hands on” exercises. It’s best if there are; the most effective learning is by doing, not by seeing or listening. Read the rest of this entry »